Nobel Lectures in Literature 2001-2005

Below is a list of the Nobel Laureates in Literature during the
period 2001-2005 with a description of the work awared with the
Nobel Prize:

(2001) Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul – for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories;

(2002) Imre Kertész – for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history;

(2003) John M Coetzee – who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider;

(2004) Elfriede Jelinek – for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power;

(2005) Harold Pinter – who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms.